About Us

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) was established in 2003 and is a large integrated health care organisation providing high quality acute secondary healthcare for the people of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen.

We employ 8,000 staff, some of whom are award winning and internationally renowned for their work and achievements. We treat over 700,000 patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures. Our high quality healthcare services are offered across five hospital sites, and various community sites.

We have a total of 1041 beds:

700 beds at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital

219 beds at Burnley General Teaching Hospital

32 beds at Clitheroe Community hospital

18 beds at Accrington Victoria

72 Pendle Community Hospital

Our specialities

We provide a full range of acute hospital and adult community services and are a specialist centre for:

Hepatobiliary

Head and neck

Urological cancer services

And also provide:

Specialist cardiology services

Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care

Investing in the future

We are committed to delivering the best possible healthcare services to the local population while ensuring the future viability of our services. This will be achieved by continually improving the productivity and efficiency of services. Our core focus has enabled demonstrable improvement in our key access, quality and performance indicators.

There are two private finance initiative (PFI) schemes for parts of the buildings at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Burnley General Teaching Hospital sites, valued at over £70m and £20m respectively. We have made major investments in our healthcare facilities, particularly at our Burnley General Teaching Hospital site which saw the opening of our Elective Centre and Chemotherapy and Breast Clinic in 2017. Continuous investments in our health care services allow us to provide state-of-the-art facilities and equipment.

By working closely with our adult community services we can ensure that all patients have a high quality service whether they are in hospital, in the community or their own home.